Motions and Applications

• Author: Mark C. Halfyard/Michael Dineen/Jonathan Dawe
• Pages: 65-80

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Motions and

Applications

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I. Introduction ............................................. 66

II. Bail Pending Appeal ....................................... 66

A. Indictable Appeals ................................... 66

B. Summary Conviction Appeals ......................... 72

C. Pre-Sentence Bail Pending Appeal ...................... 73

III. Motions to Stay Ancillary Orders ............................. 73

A. Stay of Driving Prohibitions (Section 261 of the

Criminal Code) ...................................... 73

B. Suspension of Other Ancillary Orders (Section 683(5)

of the Criminal Code) ................................ 75

IV. Applications for Leave to Appeal ............................. 76

V. Motion to Extend Time to File an Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

VI. Funding Orders (Sections 684 and 694.1 of the Criminal Code) .... 78

VII. Motions to Intervene ...................................... 80

66 Criminal Appeals: A Practitioner’s Handbook

I. Introduction

This chapter deals with preliminary procedures in an appeal in which one of the parties

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appeal. Common motions and applications include applications for bail pending appeal;

motions to stay pending appeal ancillary orders imposed during sentencing such as

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

a party to intervene; applications for leave to appeal (required for sentence appeals and

appeals to the court of appeal from a summary conviction appeal); and motions to

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Because courts of appeal are statutory courts, their jurisdiction to grant relief or

make orders is derived from the Criminal Code and governed by the court of appeal

rules for each province. This chapter will look at some of the common motions heard

     

  

-

ences to the various practices in other provincial appeal courts.

II. Bail Pending Appeal

A. Indictable Appeals

 Criminal Code1 sets out the jurisdiction

to hear and decide an application for bail pending appeal. A single judge of the court

of appeal may release an appellant from custody pending the determination of his or

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of appeal and/or application for leave to appeal to the court of appeal against conviction;

    against sentence only and has been

granted leave

Supreme Court of Canada. Bail pending appeal may be sought if the appellant is either

still serving a custodial sentence or if he or she has been released on parole (in which

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The distinction between conviction appeals and appeals against sentence alone is

important. If the appellant is appealing against his or her conviction or against convic-

tion and sentence, the motions judge does not have to decide the issue of leave in order

to grant bail pending appeal. However, if the appellant is appealing against sentence

1 Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46.

2 , 2005 CanLII 3942 (Ont CA).